Best J. G. Ballard Quotes
- It seems to me that what most of us have to fear for the future is not that something terrible is going to happen, but… Boring
- Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant. Art
- The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape… Across
- Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already… Almost Superfluous
- Sex times technology equals the future. Equals
- The suburbs dream of violence. America
- The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events… Anatomy
- Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility… Accustomed
- His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf… Agnostics
- Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. Any
- A ton of Proust isn’t worth an ounce of Ray Bradbury. Bradbury
- People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled… Alien
- Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the… Along
- Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within… Accessible
- Fiction is a branch of neurology Branch
- All you do is get on and start pedaling . . . All
- Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's… Act
- Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica. Eight
- Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? Device
- An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use. Art
- The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're… Complete
- The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after. Boring
- It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of… Ahead
- Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. Adolescent
- The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of… Abstract
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